You may remember when this year on Point FM began with a special survey of the best new ‘Sounds of Wales’ from the year just ended. If I’m being modest, we had a good response to that programme, though if I’m being honest, we actually had a tremendous response.

We couldn’t let it lie for long – so to mark St David’s Day, we brought you another three hour marathon of Welsh music, in English and Cymraeg, that stirs the superlatives.

Every corner of the country is covered, though perhaps our ears are more tuned towards bands and singers from the North this time round, as is a whole heap of brand new releases just so timed to fit in with the day of Dewi Sant – or nearabouts. By way of a bonus, there’s also a handful of encores from our first showcase.

One other note – a few people asked us if we could make the ‘Sounds of Wales’ special from January available online. As much as we’d like to, copyright reasons mean that if we tried, it would give us a few headaches. What we can do is bring you a free music playlist to enjoy at your leisure. One or two missing tracks aside, at least you won’t have to hear me stumbling through one link after the next.